Renaissance Books

As an architecture student I found ALberti's books, even this one....to be one ofthe most inspiring, intrigueing and most influential books that i have ever read. He was truly a man ahead of his time. I highly recommend this book and every other book that you could get your hands on by him. If you like theory and really in depth meaningful materials then i suggest you read this immediately.

Like every other Elizabeth Eyre book I've read, I loved it! I stayed up all night getting through this book. My advice, buy this book and any other she's written. You won't regret it! And to E. Eyre, thanks for the wonderful books. Please write another one quick!

Discourses On Love, Marriage, And Transgression In Medieval And Early Modern Literature is a collection of scholarly essays by learned authors discussing an extensive variation of period literary perspectives toward friendship, marriage, adultery, domestic violence, individual happiness, the breaking of promises and vows, the destructive side of sexuality, and more. Individual essays include "Accusations of Gay and Straight Sexual Transgression", "Caucer's Vows and How They Break: Transgression in The Manciple's Tale", and "Constructing New Women in Early Modern English Literature". Each topic is dissected from a multiplicity of literary, historical, and social viewpoints. A uniquely vivid and daring examination of love, sex, and culture as reflected in medieval writing.

If you loved Disney's Dr. Syn Alias the Scarecrow, you will love this book. Long out of print, this is the story that inspired that classic miniseries with Patrick McGoohan. There is an informative introduction on the writing of the book, the Disney series, as well as two unrelated movie versions, and the other books in the series! I highly recommend it.

My wife and I just returned from a wonderful trip to Rome, Venice and Florence. We bought Whitehot Productions Self Guided Walking Tours from Amazon a few weeks before we left and we were so thankful we did. The Doge Palace is a must see when you are visiting Venice and the Audio Guides realy added to our enjoyment of this historic building. The narrator, in easily understood English, clearly explained the history and importance of everything we were viewing. Our traveling companions were constantly asking us to explain to them the things we were seeing tgether. Don't go to Venice without this guide. We wish that Whitehot Productions had finished their guides for Rome prior to our trip.

The book contains a very good summary of each English Shire covered by the Domesday Survey. Each Shire contains map and a focus on several towns, as well as, a list of all place names found in the survey. There is also a glossary of terms, a list of important personages, and plenty of pictures of landscape and architecture.

I am a sculpturess, I have a project to do a bas-relief. I like his works a lot. I need this book as soon as possible, I wish. Thank you give us a change to read and find this book.

This is exactly how you want a book on a painter to be. The book features beautiful and large reproductions of the work of Dosso Dossi and of Dosso's brother, Battista, as well as works of painters, such as Giorgione and Rafael, that influenced Dosso. The paintings and illustrations are conveniently numbered and referred to by number in the many essays that fill the book. The essays themselves are wonderful. The subjects range from speculation about Dosso's influences, to the influence Dosso himself had on painting in his part of Italy, to a discussion of his techniques, which are the most intersting part of the book. Dosso changed his works directly on the canvas, rather than planning them out first. New x-ray technology has revealed the underlying layers of paint, and many of the original versions Dosso painted are shown here, along with much speculation on why he made the changes he did. Even if you are not a Dosso Dossi fan, the book is a valuable study into the mind and techniques of an artist, and to the state of painting in central and northern Italy during the Renaissance.

Author Mark Rice has done a very thorough job on extracting historical data on the various buildings, past and present, in downtown Dallas. He adds some poignant and some bizarre tales that happened in/around the buildings. For anyone who either is a fan of Dallas, architecture, or Texas history will enjoy this book.

This is the one -- groaty to the very core, fire-minted with economic insight and saucier than a dutchman's greek. Cuckltural marterioles to the max. Fork aht, sisters and brothers, fork aht.